Using Stability.ai’s DreamStudio Beta, I was finally able to get some cool results by tweaking some settings. While I wasn’t able to get the petals to turn into fangs, DreamStudio recognized the carnivorous plant references I added to the prompt and integrated them into the main flower.
Turns out, the variations technique I use with[[
Dall-E 2
]] doesn’t work well with DreamStudio! Once I changed the settings to generate just 1 image, I started getting much better results. On my previous DreamStudio attempt, I changed to 4 images, thinking it would be like Dall-E. Nope!
Redreaming
As I continued to increase the cfg and diffusion values in each Redream, I saw more detail being generated for the same prompt.
More Attempts
cfgScale: 20 was hit or miss. Redreaming the blurry ones just regenerated out of focus images! :(
I wanted to try to create variations of my favorites in Dall-E and see if I could get a cool series going. First, I tried a very vague prompt without descriptors to see how Dall-E interprets this as a baseline. It seems to assume carnivorous plants are always pitcher plants!
Next, I tried the prompt from the top of this post, with the super realistic and funky weird generations.
I liked DreamStudio’s interpretation of this more—if you scroll to the top of this page, you’ll see that it really nailed the photorealism. By contrast, Dall-E’s generations for this prompt had that trademark “AI generated collage” look.
This is getting terrifying, so I’m moving on to a different prompt now!
I absolutely love the direction this went in. It’s fully zoomed out, the tulip itself has transformed to a venus flytrap hybrid, and all the tendrils around it are taking the form of axes, lungs, some sort of weaponized uterus even? Awesome.
Uploading DreamStudio images
By inputting my favorite DreamStudio generations, I’m hoping to generate some stylistically similar images!
Edits
Photoshop Neural Filters
Super Zoom
Depth Blur
Content Aware Fill
Good ol’ Sharpen + Noise Filters
Here are all the notes in this garden, along with their links, visualized as a graph.